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Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Donald Trump's third nominee for surgeon general, has deleted numerous social media posts in which she publicly criticized the administration's handling of major health issues, including measles elimination, vaccine policy and the 79-year-old president's own health transparency.

Just two months before her nomination in late April, Saphier – then a Fox News medical contributor – suggested in a now-deleted March post that the administration was concealing the loss of U.S. measles elimination status until after midterm elections, according to archived records reviewed by CNN's KFile.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco squirmed Tuesday night in a televised California gubernatorial debate after denying a past remark attributed to him, only to ultimately concede that he had likely said it when pressed by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.

“You've actually had some harsh words for your fellow Republican [GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton]; you've called him 'unethical' and 'dishonest,' and said that he is trying to 'manipulate Californians' and 'swindle his way into the Republican side,'" Collins said. “Are you saying that you don't think Republican voters can trust Mr. Hilton?”

Republicans may have gerrymandered themselves into a blue wave, according to a legal analyst.

President Donald Trump boasted last week that Republicans could remain in power for 50 years if they could get rid of the Senate filibuster, and legal analyst Michael Propok said that public statement revealed an alarming truth about GOP intentions now that the Supreme Court had cleared the way to eliminate majority-Black congressional districts.

The Department of Homeland Security is axing a program put in place under fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem that accelerated the training of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in an effort to get them swiftly out on the street, rounding up undocumented immigrants.

According to a report from Politico’s Myah Ward, Jordain Carney, and Daniel Lippman, the highly criticized fast-tracking of new hires has been set aside under the new DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and new protocols are being put in place to increase supervision of agents already deployed.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority has quietly abandoned one of its own legal doctrines — and it did so in the middle of an ongoing election, in the dead of night, and without explanation, according to two lawyers.

The so-called Purcell principle, which the Court has invoked repeatedly over the past several years to protect the rights of minority voters, holds that state legislatures cannot change their election maps when an election is too close. But that principle was just thrown out the door in Louisiana v. Callais, according to legal experts Marc Elias and Joyce Vance.

President Donald Trump's latest glitch at a small-business event stunned a political analyst on Tuesday.

On May 4, Trump attended a small business event in the East Room at the White House, accompanied by Kelly Loeffler, his Small Business Administration secretary. During the event, Trump appeared to nod off while Loeffler was speaking, and at one point looked like he was sleeping while standing up, according to political analyst David Pakman.

President Donald Trump's legacy hinges on an issue he has no interest in addressing, according to one of his biographers.

Journalist Michael Wolff argued during a new episode of the "Inside Trump's Head" podcast, co-hosted by Nico Hines, the Daily Beast’s global editorial director, that Trump's war in Iran is shaping up to end a lot like the oil crisis that plagued former President Jimmy Carter long after he left office. Wolff noted that Americans have become increasingly sensitive to rising gas prices resulting from the war, similar to the crisis Carter faced when the former Iranian regime fell, he added.

Democratic strategist James Carville sounded an urgent alarm about New Hampshire's Senate race, calling it essential to Democratic control of the chamber.

Democrat Chris Pappas leads Republican John Sununu by just one point — 45-44 — a margin Carville describes as a tied race being overlooked while national attention focuses on Georgia and North Carolina.

A billionaire real estate magnate demanded that the ultra-rich be "praised and thanked" in an earnings call reported by Politico on Tuesday — and compared New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's calls to "tax the rich" to racial slurs.

“I must say that I consider the phrase tax the rich — quote tax the rich — when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs, and even the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’” said Steve Roth, who runs Vornado Realty Trust.

The California Governor Primary Debate on CNN got heated on Tuesday after a fed-up Democrat gave a Republican an earful over his plan to lower energy prices.

Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, has claimed that he will lower the price of gas to $3 per gallon within a year if he is elected governor. His plan includes releasing the state's strategic oil reserves to boost supply. However, Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose, said Hilton's plan is "unrealistic" and pointed out several flaws in the idea during the debate.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) spoke to Fox News during a campaign stop at a food bank on Tuesday and her condition left people on the internet stunned and starting to question her physical fitness for office.

Asked by reporter Paul Steinhauser whether her Democratic opponent, harbormaster and oyster farmer Graham Platner, would be too far left for the state, she said, "I believe that will be the conclusion of Maine voters but obviously I don’t take anything for granted."